They did the Englishman's dirty work, spoke his language in their own ugly hobson-jobson, full of vulgar abuse, but had none of his cricketing spirit.
-- Khushwant Singh, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
What a great flowery languag the English language is. Hobson-jobson - now that is pure delight.
I had never heard of that before.
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